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Old 05-27-2018, 10:16 AM
 
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Tourist love them

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Old 05-27-2018, 10:32 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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The MTA should hire them as subway entertainers. (we have subway greeters now entertainers) Give them an annual salary of 120K plus overtime.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxoN5p38nMU
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Old 05-27-2018, 10:59 AM
 
Location: New Jersey and hating it
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This is deBlasio’s vision for NY.
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Old 05-27-2018, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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Everyone in the car clapped.
...and then the cutest girl in the car came up and gave me her phone number. -thathappened

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I love my local natives. That's the difference between you and me.
You probably love it when someone hands you a cd and then bullies you to pay for it, too.
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Old 05-27-2018, 11:10 AM
 
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...and then the cutest girl in the car came up and gave me her phone number. -thathappened



You probably love it when someone hands you a cd and then bullies you to pay for it, too.
Never happened to me. But that's probably because I don't look like a transplant.
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Old 05-27-2018, 11:33 AM
 
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Never happened to me. But that's probably because I don't look like a transplant.

You have a kind of odd obsession with "transplants." Must be coming from a place of insecurity. If the number one thing you're proud of in your life is where your mother popped you out, that's pitiful.
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Old 05-27-2018, 07:05 PM
 
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You probably love it when someone hands you a cd and then bullies you to pay for it, too.
A guy in Union Square did that to me once, handed me a CD and I was caught off guard and kept walking. He yelled out, "Hey that's 10 bucks!" So I turned around and gave it back to him and said I'm not paying for this. He said, "but you'll take it, won't you, TAKER!"
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Old 05-28-2018, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Manhattan
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We should be hearing from Nywriterdude shortly condemning the actions of the showtime performers. Oh wait, he's okay with physical assault, it's just the words that hurt him.

Those "performers" are a dangerous pain in the ass. It is only a matter of time until they kick someone in the head and put him in a coma. They should be jailed.
I would think it appropriates for the MTA to be sued BIG TIME for any injury. Any jackass could see the inevitable injury coming soon.


"If you SEE something, SAY something." Yeah, RIGHT.
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Old 05-28-2018, 07:54 AM
 
Location: New Jersey and hating it
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Performers should be separated into different categories. The ones that play music, sing, read poetry, etc. are fine and should be allowed. It’s the acrobats doing flips, jumps, monkey bars and other gymnastic moves inside cars that should be banned.
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Old 05-28-2018, 01:41 PM
 
Location: Rego Park, Queens
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Lol
Last time my mom and i were on the train she gave them $5 So see where i get it from lol.

Her reasoning is that it keeps them kids from selling dope or robbing a convenience store.
So, bribing away the problem? Just creates more problems, in the long run.
Reminds me of when I personally saw some "showtime performers" harass an old woman when she refused to give them money: one of the "entertainers" told her that she should give them money, otherwise she wouldn't know if they would rob, rape, or beat her up in the future. Hardly a good sales pitch ...

IMO a better use of that money would be donating to some youth program.

There's a tennis program in DC (for example) in an area that sees only 40% of teens graduate high school -- but that program sees almost all of their teens graduate high school.
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